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Chapter 298 Distant friendship and close attack, ancient ancestors

The news that Duke Xia was crowned king was released, and the whole country was affected by it. Needless to say, the princes and princes sent congratulatory missions to the ceremony early and set off early, with extremely high standards.

Some were even escorted by the True Lord of Yangshen, and the monarch's parents and children with Count Hou leading the mission, for no other reason than to make good friends with Daxia.

And Qianlong, who took the lead in claiming the title of king, such as King Wu, King Yue, King Qi, and King Zhao, did not put on airs.

The princes and kings rushed to send people to congratulate them, not because Daxia, which was located in the north, could threaten them, but because of the inevitable diplomatic strategy.

Long-distance friendship and short-distance attack are the truths that have not changed throughout the ages.

Just like King Wu and King Yue, the two fought hard in the south of the Yangtze River, and they have been in a stalemate.

At this time, if there is one more ally of the Northern Kingdom, it may affect the views of some powerful people in the south of the Yangtze River, thus shaking the overall situation.

The area south of the Yangtze River in the Central Region is extremely prosperous, with a population of 3000 to [-] million in one state, which can be said to be blessed with great luck.

Their kingship is not like the northern border. Some states can barely become kings, which is determined by the accumulation of civilization.

In the Tianyuan Continent, the development of the Human Dao Dynasty centered on the Central Territory and slowly expanded to all directions.

After the central region, Jiangnan was acquired, and Jiangnan expanded to the southern region, and then came the two regions of Xishu and Dongtai.

As for the northern border, it may be due to the struggle of the five veins in the heavenly court, or it may be limited by factors such as the invasion of the grassland cavalry to the south, the harsh and cold environment.

Except for the development of Tongzhou along the north coast of the river, the Central Plains Dynasty did not expand too far north for a long time.

Before Daxu, there were only six states in the northern border.

The Daxu Dynasty opened up Dingzhou, made the Kingdom of Jin bow its head and became a vassal, and completely blocked the path of nomads going south at will. It is a great achievement.

Therefore, Daxu Guozuo could last longer than the common 300 years. Even before Emperor Tongzhi was canonized as emperor, most powerful gentry believed that Daxu might revive again and Guozuo could be extended for another hundred years or more.

This is the benefit brought by expanding the territory, establishing the prestige of the court, winning the hearts of the people, relocating the population to alleviate social conflicts, and so on.

But these benefits are all useful to Daxu as the central court. The northern border, especially Dingzhou, is still the last big state, and the foundation is still the shallowest.

Nowadays, Zhou Bain can dominate the two northern states for many reasons. The population of 2000 million is a disadvantage, but the average quality of the population has already caught up with the top ten major states.

With the popularization of education and widespread military deployment, now young people in Dingzhou, no matter how poor their family conditions are, can find a way out.

Take the Dayan Dynasty as an example. Its population is only 3000 million, and the quality of the population is not as good as that of the foreign kingdoms of the Tianyuan Continent. However, it can still create a dynasty in the lower world plane.

This is the difference between the pattern and quality of luck, and Daxia also has the advantage of being king in other aspects.

First, due to the general trend of conquest accumulated through countless battles and victorious battles, it was difficult to find an opponent in the northern border. There was no opposition from the northern princes to the elevated principality.

King Ling and Zhou Bai used to have some minor disputes. Before Daxia conquered Liangzhou in the west, there was only Dingzhou, but the army of Daling Kingdom still attacked Tongzhou in the south.

This is Tongzhou, which is by default the most prosperous in the north. The overall strength is not as good as Dingzhou, which is the most barren in the north. Tongzhou is easier to fight than the north.

The second advantage is Daxia's unprecedented system.

This system does not refer to the improvement of the six ministries and offices of the cabinet, but more to innovations in aspects such as militia, imperial power sent to the countryside, military preaching, cooperation with the divine court, and official training.

The birth of these new things unified people's hearts, bursting out powerful vitality in the land of Daxia, and countless fortunes were produced every moment.

Integrating domestic Taoism and accepting monks for use by the court is the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle.

With enough strength and luck, how could Zhou Bai not be king.

Half a month passed in a blink of an eye, and people from all over the world had rushed to harvest the ripe wheat in the fields before the autumn rain came.

The harvest in Liangzhou, Xia's new land, also pushed Xia Gong's king-proclaiming ceremony to a climax.

This is enough to show that Dingzhou's good weather and good harvests every year are not just caused by the improvement of the environment by the spiritual tide of heaven and earth.

"Lucky, I just started in Tianjuan Dingzhou."

"Maybe there was a problem with Daxia Kanyu back then, and the ranking of Dingzhou Longqi was wrong."

"If Zhou Bai were in other big states in the north, he would definitely not have the current achievements."

Before Zhou Bai entered Liangzhou, the outside world often had inferences such as the above, but now Daxia's achievements in Liangzhou for one year are enough to overturn all these doubts.

On September [-]th, before the grand ceremony of proclaiming the king, the Liangzhou tripod was cast. Xia Gong Zhou Bo carried the tripod to fix the rivers and mountains of Liangzhou, and the Liang people obeyed.

Boundless yin fortune feeds back to the yang world, Xiyuan County is full of aura, or there are rains falling, or the earth's spiritual grass and golden flowers...

Those who gathered at Longshouyuan to watch the ceremony all had the fortune of being cast into a tripod, cleansing their bodies, improving their cultivation, and benefiting a lot.

Of course, most of the famous people will not be bought by this advantage, and they are more looking forward to whether Duke Xia's success in becoming king will be smooth.

If the Great Xia Principality is really upgraded to the Great Xia Kingdom, the forces behind it and even the country will have to change their strategies.

Looking at the princes of the world, there are still a few who really started from scratch.

Under the long-term control of the Heavenly Court, the change of dynasties in the Tianyuan Continent has long been a game, and the layout of many Qianlong seeds is based on several dynasties and generations.

Even the competition for dragon energy in Dingzhou in the outskirts, the family forces behind Lei Haomiao, Lu Ding and others, which ones have not been planning since the beginning of Daxu's establishment, such as searching for dragons, burying ancestors in dragon caves and other luck methods emerge in endlessly.

In a sense, Zhou Bai's style of reshuffling the cards and truly carrying out the "Ding Reform" is rare in the world.

The families of prefectures in Ruling Kingdom basically did not change, and there was no shortage of privileges. This is the normal state of most vassal states.

In view of Zhou Bai's ruling ideas, many powerful families and even Taoist sects will stare at the King's Ceremony, especially the major forces in Qinzhou.

Once Daxia reveals any weakness, it will inevitably encounter strong resistance, and the westward strategy will come to an impasse.

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The sun is setting in the west, and the rest of the country is in jeopardy. It is about to fall apart, but Daxu is still the only empire in the world.

Therefore, all countries in the world, including foreign countries, still use the Tongzhi reign name.

Regarding Zhou Bai becoming king, Daxu's attitude was not too bad, and he even sent envoys to watch the ceremony.

Only proclaiming the emperor, the two sides are in an endless situation.

Just like when there are two days today, either Tianyuan is replaced by Qingxu, or Tianyuan compiles the remaining resources of Qingxu and stands behind it.

On the first day of October in the eighth year of Tongzhi, it was a good time to launch an expedition with high autumn air, but it was extremely quiet today, and the northern princes agreed to temporarily suspend warfare.

Although the eldest prince Lu Wang, the sixth prince Ling Wang and others are also princes, they are after all inheriting the legacy of Daxu and relying on the support of the fortune of the clan.

This kind of king has not experienced disasters and cannot subdue his neighboring countries. Many powerful heroes find it difficult to recognize him. Even the disjointed Tongzhou is still resisting.

If Zhou Bai succeeds in assuming the throne of King Xia, he will be the first self-reliant king in the northern border, and he will have a great influence on the layout of the seven states in the northern border.

When the king comes, people's hearts will be convinced.

All eyes were on Da Xia, and under the spotlight of all the people, the grand ceremony of proclaiming king kicked off.

Outside the city of Xiyuan, in the Longshou Plain for thousands of miles, all kinds of fortunes are intertwined and gathered, and the crowds are as turbulent as layers of trees.

And at the center of the gathering of fortunes guarded by the bodyguards and soldiers, a majestic and majestic altar stands tall.

Its regulations are very special, with Fangze as the bottom and circular hills as the top.

"This is the high platform used by Duke Xia to proclaim himself king? I have never seen such regulations when traveling around the world."

"How could the worship altar be so reckless? When the time comes, the heavenly court will blame us, and all the people watching the ceremony may be implicated."

"Sigh, I never imagined that adhering to the name of the ancient Xia country, even the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven could be mistaken."

The first time they saw the Heaven and Earth Altar, many people subconsciously questioned Xia Guo's ignorance of etiquette, because the first impression of Zhou Bai's hometown was too deep.

The Heavenly Court governs this world, and there are too many sacrifices to the Heavenly Heaven in the mortal world, and most of the rural folk have participated.

However, more knowledgeable people did not think that such an important event in the Xia Kingdom could go wrong. They recalled the records in ancient books and discussed where the altar came from.

Human Sovereign Altar?Or is it the inheritance of which dynasty during the chaotic period of the Middle Ages?
The majesty of this altar, even the length, width and height are in line with the number of luck such as 36, nine, so it must not be built randomly.

"This is Yuanqiu Fangze, the altar where our Tianyuan human race sacrificed to heaven and earth in ancient times!" A great Confucian from the central region was in a trance for a moment, and then gave a firm answer.

The tallest of the soil is called a hill, and the natural hill is taken.

The circle, the one who wins, is like the one who wins the sky.

In ancient times, the human race had already subdued all other races and became the master of the Tianyuan Great World.

People who practice Taoism and detachment emerge in endlessly. Ages of civilization and prosperity such as Human Emperor, Taoist Court, and Heavenly Court have appeared one after another. Even the heavens have great reputations, and countless worlds bow their heads.

But before the ancient times, there was another era that few people mentioned, the ancient times.

In the ancient times, the ancestors of the human race were oppressed by all races, and many foreign races even imprisoned some tribes of ancestors as slaves.

It's nothing more than starving and working hard, and being used as blood food in the cold winter when food is scarce, it can be said that the treatment is worse than that of pigs.

When the human race was on the verge of extinction, the ancestors of the ancient times no longer followed the example of thousands of races and drank blood, but started slash-and-burn cultivation to shape the spirit of civilization.

This kind of practice is in line with the meaning of heaven and earth, and luck is favored, and the road to the rise of the human race has thus begun.

In a difficult environment, he kept striving for self-improvement, overcame the thorns and thorns in the Tianyuan Continent where there were thousands of races, and finally blazed a bloody road and gained a foothold in the forest of thousands of races.

However, the ancestors knew that although their own efforts were very important, they should also be grateful for the support of heaven and earth luck.

So the human sages among them followed the heart of heaven and earth, built circles and square swamps, and offered sacrifices to heaven and earth.

From then on, whenever the armies of the ancestors went out to fight, they would first sacrifice to the heaven and earth at the Circular Mound and Fangze. On the contrary, all races did not follow the heaven's heart and did not understand the general trend, and in the end they were all defeated by the human race.

The evil-doing alien races were chased north and wiped out. Only those who were previously neutral and friendly were allowed to retain their bloodline and coexist on the mainland.

The auspicious time has come, and all the officials and people of Daxia who participated in the meeting have arrived. The Minister of Rites, Yin Mu, who is in charge of presiding over the progress of the ceremony, also entered the venue with a team of officials and soldiers.

Of course he heard doubts, and immediately reprimanded loudly with integrity: "Huanqiu Fangze is used by the ancestors of the ancient times to sacrifice to the heaven and the earth. Who dares to say that my Great Xia does not respect the ritual system?!"

Minister of the Ministry of Rites, important official in purple robes, every word and deed embodies the will of the Great Xia National Destiny.

At this time, he reprimanded him with majestic words, and no one dared to refute.

Even if some people are curious about why Daxia does not perform regular sacrifices to heaven, they can only keep it in their hearts.

The ancestors of the ancient times experienced countless sacrifices, and they had to go through many hardships to achieve today's Tianyuan civilization. Who can say a word.

(End of this chapter)